ASUS Striker II Extreme

[Trigger5521]

Appologies for the Nob question. Iam thinking of changing my Asus Maximus to ASUS Striker 2 Extreme with the puprose of running 2x gtx8800 OC in SLI on it.
(getting cheap on the vga) and i also have the chipset for watercolling all the mosfet,cpu, nb,sb ready. so i dont want to pay the extra $ or £ for new hardware.
Does this board gets 450 FSB? or iam going to hit the wall.
iam thinking of getting my CPU 8x450 QX6700 (runs 100% on my current setup)
Will have to get new memory though. Any suggestions are welcome.

I have the Q9650 at 450 Bus. I can't say it'll do it with the QX6700, not sure I've seen anyone running that combo.

[neo mike]

Wow Trigger it takes that much cpu voltage to run at 4.0 ghz ? seems high.

[neo mike]

Neo Rtr, Can be done, i dont have a quad, but im sure you can do it, but will definitly take some work to get there, have to play with voltages, gtls.

I would get some crucial ballistic ddr3 1600mgz or crucial ballistic 2000mgz kit, im running the 2000 kit, great stuff. Getting your quad to where you want it will be easier with 2gigs of ram, more hard with 4 gigs of ram.

[Trigger5521]

Wow Trigger it takes that much cpu voltage to run at 4.0 ghz ? seems high.

yep, 1.33 bios with LLC enabled = 1.44 1.42 cpu-z

1.36 bios with LLC disabled this board overvolts like mad.

[neo mike]

Thats insane, what bios u running ? my 1202 bios dont over volt even close to that. 1.28 bios , everest 1.31

[owcraftsman]

For me 1202 bios LLC enabled bios set 1.34375vcore = 1.39v CPUz or Everest Ultimate CPUID or CoreTemp

Have you tried 7-7-7-20 2t timings with 2x2 seems to me if your kit is the PVS34G2000LLKN rated to run PC3-16000 (2000MHz) 9-9-9-24 @ 2.0V then it should be no problem. If it doesn't they may need rma'd too.

Did you ever post all your bios settings if not grab my template a few post back and add your settings to it.

[neo mike]

Who you refering to owncraftsman ?

[joebloggs]

Ok this is wierd. My pc is more or less stable now, need to iron out some issues with ram. Never had a problem all day yesterday.

I started it from cold this morning and POST froze on USB INIT. Any ideas why?

[neo_rtr]

Thanks for the notes guys. will look at this further.
thank you

[joebloggs]

OK, found out that this USB INIT freze during POST is due to me setting fsb and ram to linked and synced. If I set to unlinked and both 1600 it is ok. Any ideas?

[Trigger5521]

Thats insane, what bios u running ? my 1202 bios dont over volt even close to that. 1.28 bios , everest 1.31

I'm using BIOS 1202. It is what it is, could also be the board reporting it incorrectly.

[joebloggs]

OK, found out that this USB INIT freze during POST is due to me setting fsb and ram to linked and synced. If I set to unlinked and both 1600 it is ok. Any ideas?

Found out my ram needed more voltage, I got POST freezes at USB INIT and MSCONFIG when cold booting.

[neo mike]

I told you to boost you voltage to 1.85.

[joebloggs]

EDIT - nvm, I'm just going to stay at 3ghz with ram linked and synced. It's happy and stable. Just spent 3 months trying to get it stable at any setting without success.

I've been told that the L807A batch that I've got, coupled with this board is hopeless. I've been told that if I want more, go 45nm.

My hard drive errors and BIOS freezes only happens when overclocking. It's sweet now at stock settings, so something is disagreeing with something.

[kullymontana]

whats a good program to test memory in vista itself.As if i do small fft prime 95 runs all good but when i do blend it fails like straight away.

[neo mike]

dowload memtest here http://hcidesign.com/memtest/MemTest.zip you can use it while in windows.

[Trigger5521]

whats a good program to test memory in vista itself.As if i do small fft prime 95 runs all good but when i do blend it fails like straight away.

I had same issue... fft all day...blend failed instantly. MORE mem volts and a RAM fan cured it for me. ALOT more mem volts I'm at 2.06

[Sangrak]

I had same issue... fft all day...blend failed instantly. MORE mem volts and a RAM fan cured it for me. ALOT more mem volts I'm at 2.06

Glad to hear that you found what works for you.

[kullymontana]

I had same issue... fft all day...blend failed instantly. MORE mem volts and a RAM fan cured it for me. ALOT more mem volts I'm at 2.06

I tried 1.9 in bios and shows 1.97 in everest ran and failed again at 48 mins always fails at that point dont know why.

[neo mike]

You have a quad kullymontana ?

[kullymontana]

You have a quad kullymontana ?

Yes neo i have a qx9650 i posted some settings before to a while back really strange this board is as settings work for some and not at all for me.

[neo mike]

Can you pass memtest in windows i gave you ? check that first, you have 2 gigs memory, or 4 ?

[kullymontana]

Can you pass memtest in windows i gave you ? check that first, you have 2 gigs memory, or 4 ?

I have Corsair 4GB 2x 2GB PC3 12800 Dual Channel DDR3 Memory TWIN3X4096-1600C7DHX i ran memtest86 in boot up cd and passed that.

[neo mike]

Ok so is your cpu then. Try giving your cpu more voltage, and run again and see what happens, if still fails, then your probally need to play with cpu gtl voltages. Up your vtt to 1.32 in bios, and nbv to 1.50 in bios, see if passes.

[kullymontana]

Ok so is your cpu then. Try giving your cpu more voltage, and run again and see what happens, if still fails, then your probally need to play with cpu gtl voltages. Up your vtt to 1.32 in bios, and nbv to 1.50 in bios, see if passes.

even though the cpu can pass in small fft and not in blend i would surgest its not the cpu .Could be i need to set memory values rather than leave them in auto @ the moment i got it set @ 7-7-7-20 2t and rest in auto.Im using bios 1202